Security Engineer III - AMZ
Listed on 2026-08-26
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IT/Tech
Information Security & Data Protection, Systems Engineer, Cybersecurity, IT Consultant
Location: New York
Description
MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE
Employer:
AMAZON DEVELOPMENT CENTER U.S., INC.
Offered Position:
Security Engineer III
Job Location:
New York, New York
Job Number: AMZ
9971078
Partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, and Identity teams to define and design controls and governance capabilities. Understand and represent how enterprises think about and organize their risk and compliance posture in the cloud. Combined with a deep understanding of security, performance, resiliency, and cost concerns associated with the entire portfolio of AWS services, threat model, define and design a scalable set of preventative and detective controls that can be audited and evolved over time.
Position Requirements :- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related field and five years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation. Employer will accept eight years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation as equivalent to the Bachelor's degree and five years of experience. Must have five years of experience in the following skills: (1) threat modeling and security risk assessment of cloud services and distributed systems;
(2) designing and implementing Service Control Policies, AWS Config Rules, or Cloud Formation Guard policies; (3) developing preventative and detective security controls for cloud infrastructure; and (4) implementing governance controls aligned to compliance frameworks including NIST, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, or GDPR. - Must have three years of experience in the following skills: (5) experience with cloud architecture and infrastructure-as-code using Cloud Formation, Terraform, or similar tools; and (6) security policy-as-code development and automation.
is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.
Benefits & Compensation- 40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $175,843/year to $236,900/year.
- Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
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